Five players from each of the two suspended teams, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, will be allowed to be picked by the two new franchises for the next two years of the IPL, which will continue to remain an eight-team tournament until 2017

The most pressing issue on the agenda is likely to be a decision on the two suspended teams in the IPL - Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals- and a discussion on the intricacies of the Lodha Committee's order

The IPL governing council has finalised two options to decide on the future of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals - either invite bids for the two teams for two years or float fresh tenders for them for ten years

A two-judge bench of the Madras High Court has refused interim relief to Chennai Super Kings Cricket Ltd. (CSKCL), which had asked for a stay on the recommendations of the Lodha Committee pertaining to Chennai Super Kings' suspensio...

Chennai Super Kings Cricket Limited, the owners of the team which has been suspended for two years in the IPL, has filed a writ petition in the Madras High Court asking for the Lodha Committee order to be set aside in so far as it relates to Super Kings

The BCCI working group is leaning towards recommending that the two suspended IPL franchises, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, be run under new management for the next two years as a stop-gap arrangement

Management representatives of the Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals franchises have not been invited for the first round of discussions with the BCCI's working group that is in charge of studying the Lodha panel order

Rahul Dravid, Rajasthan Royals' team mentor, has said he respects the Justice Lodha Panel's decision to suspend Royals and Chennai Super Kings' owners for two years, but felt the court's decision was a massive blow to the prospects of the younger players